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7/22/2015
Governor James J. Blanchard
Chair Emeritus, Government Affairs
Practice Group
c/o DLA Piper LLP
500 8th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
USA
Dear Governor Blanchard,
My name
is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in
studying history. The main reason history is one of my favorite
subjects is because I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to help protect
people from being discriminated, a strong need to protect the environment from pollution,
the need to help train workers to help improve the economy, and many others. Also what I like to do with history is to
study on how different people can make a great difference with their ideas and their
work. Governor Blanchard, I find your
work as Governor of Michigan and later being a U.S. Ambassador to Canada to be
very inspiring to me.
When you
served as 45th Governor of Michigan in 1983-1991, I really liked on
how you worked hard to help improve Michigan’s economy by creating Michigan Youth
Corps, a jobs training program to help train youth improve their work skills
and help create jobs, creating a commission on Jobs and Economic Development
where you formed a coalition with different business, labor organizations, and
education to find common ground on fixing the economy, making worker’s rights
stronger, and improving on education, and implementing a public works project which
created jobs to help fix infrastructure, roads, and public transportation to
improve public safety. On education I
really liked on how you made it an important issue by creating Michigan
Education Trust, a tuition program to help Michiganders in the state get
assistance on tuition to go to college in order to get an education, Research
Excellence Fund to help get your state get funding to do research on technology
with improving technology to be a resourceful tool for people, and the Michigan
Model Health Curriculum to help educate students on staying healthy with
understanding different health issues. Your work on protecting the environment
to make Michigan a better place from pollution and to improve tourism is common
sense by strengthening environment protection on The Great Lakes to prevent it
from being polluted, having funds to make water, rivers, and lakes clean from
toxic chemicals, and supporting educational programs to help address the need
to protect the environment from pollution with educating about ideas like
conservation, renewable alternative energy, and other ideas to reduce
pollution. Also in your role as Governor
of Michigan I really liked on how you continued your commitment to support
Civil Rights to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities
from being discriminated in education, public places, and jobs. When you were Ambassador to Canada I liked on
how you worked with them on improving relations between the U.S. and their
country by working to improve environmental protection from pollution and
having Open Skies Agreement to improve traveling for people to visit different
countries, find ways to improve routes to help make flights safer, and to
improve trade on different products.
I took a
class about Michigan History at Washtenaw Community College and I enjoyed
taking the class because I enjoyed learning about how Michigan had some
historical part in U.S. History and how different people from Michigan area
help make Michigan become a diverse place. In my Michigan History class I enjoy
researching about your work as Governor of Michigan on finding ways to create
jobs, improve education with reform, create coalition with different
organizations to find ways to improve Michigan, protect the environment, and
protect Civil Rights after my teacher gave a lecture about you. Also your work on these different issues
including supporting Civil Rights really inspired me to work hard on Autism, my
disability and to have a strong interest in history to learn more about how
different core values make a great difference in our country including the
world. Another thing is that your
commitment to find ways to improve relations with other countries got me
inspired to continue learning more about world history, understand the
importance of building relations with other countries to work together on
environment, peace, and many others.
As a Michigander with a strong interest in
studying history I am proud to call you one of my favorite U.S. Governors of
Michigan because you really made a great difference on finding ways to create
jobs with forming coalitions with different organizations to make Michigan a
better place, improving education with reform to make learning better for
students, protecting the environment from pollution, and supporting Civil
Rights. Also your work as Ambassador to
Canada really made a great difference to improve better relations between both
countries. Also I consider you and
Governor Jennifer Granholm to be great influential Governors of Michigan. Also
I was wondering if you could please explain what it was like being an
Ambassador of a country and give me advice about continuing learning history
with government policy. Thanks for your hard work on making Michigan great with
great ideas with achievements, inspiring me to be interested in history with
working hard on Autism, and continuing make a great difference for society.
Thanks for taking the time to read my letter. I want to wish you well on
continuing your work on advocating for good ideas at DLA Piper LLC.
Sincerely,
Matthew B. Winick
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